They shall yet belie thy happy yearsThat say thou art a man. Diana's lip...Is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipeIs as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound,And all is semblative a woman's part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival c...an ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the roo...m. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author...--detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

So, Willy, let you and me be wipersOf scores out with all men--especially pipers;...And, whether they pipe us free, from rats or from mice,If we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

This Light inspires, and plays uponThe nose of Saint like Bag-pipe drone,...And speaks through hollow empty Soul,As through a Trunk, or whisp'ring hole,Such language as no mortal EarBut spiritual Eve-droppers can hear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »